Photograph
byClifton
Adams
A VICTIM OF THE HATTERAS BANKS
Wreck of the four-master Martha Spencer. In this section of North Carolina there is a grim joketothe
effect
that
Hatteras'
chief
import
is
wrecks. Along these sand spits the traveler, by glimpses of propellers, capstans, and deck houses, can trace
theforms
ofgreat
broken-back
vessels,
as
paleontologists reconstruct the skeletons of prehistoric monsters (see text, pages 481-482).